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[FM2011] British League System to Level 8


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After a lot of help from rjfreeman who has tested this database for 10 seasons on holiday with no major issues.

THE LEAGUE STRUCTURE

Insted of seperate League Systems i merged the english, northern irish, scottish and welsh system into one with 8 levels. Based upon the English League system with a couple of changes. A total of 72 scottish teams, 28 welsh teams (32 if you include Swansea, Cardiff, Wrexham and Newport) and 40 teams from Northern Ireland are added to the league system. The Premier League is intact with only english teams. Five scottish teams starts in the Championship including Celtic and Rangers. You'll find the first new teams from Northern Ireland and Wales in Conference National. Glentoran and Linfield from NI and Bangor City from Wales.

PREMIER LEAGUE (20)

CHAMPIONSHIP (24)

LEAGUE ONE (24)

LEAGUE TWO (24)

CONFERENCE NATIONAL (24)

CONFERENCE NORTH (22)--------------------------------------------CONFERENCE SOUTH (22)

PREMIER NORTH DIVISION (22)------------------------------------PREMIER CENTRAL DIVISION (22)------------------------------------PREMIER SOUTH DIVISION (22)

SCOTTISH LEAGUE (20)----------IRISH LEAGUE (20)---------WELSH LEAGUE(20)---------NORTH ENGLISH LEAGUE(20)---------CENTRAL ENGLISH LEAGUE (20)---------SOUTH ENGLISH LEAGUE (20)

THE DOMESTIC CUPS

The FA Cup, Community Shield, Johnstone's Paint Trophy and FA Trophy are all left in the database. Insted of the Carling Cup I've created 4 national Cups. That are running on the same dates as the original Caling Cup. The prize money for those tournaments are based on the Carling Cup prize money for 2010-2011 season. Berwick plays in the Scottish Cup and TNS plays in the Welsh Cup.

FA CUP (Include teams from england, northern ireland, scottland and wales)

COMMUNITY SHIELD (Premier League winner against FA Cup winner the previous season)

ENGLISH CUP (Only includes english teams)

NORTHERN IRISH CUP (Only includes irish teams)

SCOTTISH CUP (Only includes scottish teams)

WELSH CUP (Only include welsh teams)

JOHNSTONE'S PAINT TROPHY (Includes all the teams from the 3rd and 4th tier regardless their nationality)

FA PAINT TROPHY (Includes all the teams from the tier 5-8, regardless their nationality)

AWARDS

All awards are fixed with correct names and new awards are created for level 7 & 8.

ISSUES

The well-known issue with teams relegated to tier and not seem to put in the right division hase been a problem. First i tried to make each division flexible with 16-24 teams to make the national divisions seperate but it always balanced out to 20 teams no matter what. I have now put in the regional division for every single team and it works better than in the first edition. The scottish, irish and welsh leagues will stay pretty genuine. When I tested the db, those three national league sometimes got to many teams in that tier and a few teams were moved into the english leagues.

The first season a lot of the teams are playing in europe. The fixtures still works without any problems, the second season only four british teams qualify for CL and four for the EL.

A lot of clubs from northern ireland had a B-team. I've deletead all of them and added a reserve and u18 team insted.

If you'd find any new problems that we've missed, please post them.

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hero_swe, I really like what you have done. I have run 4 seasons on holiday and things look pretty good. I've only found one issue, it's not a problem for me, but I don't think it's doing what you intended. The level 8 national leagues are not maintaining the regional divisions. Instead all 6 lower divisions keep 20 teams.

Here's a screenshot of the Scottish League at the end of the fourth season:PremierScottishLeagueInformation_Stages.png

As you can see here, some English clubs have made their way into the Scottish division. All the bottom divisions are the same, the teams are being shifted around to keep a balance of 20 teams in each division. But as I've stated, this is not a real problem for me. I don't mind teams playing in other nations leagues.

Other than that, everythings great. I'll let you know if I find anything else. Good work.

Note of interest: Celtic has managed to finish 8th in the Premier League this season.

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I've noticed that too. I'm trying to give all the clubs their regional divisions now on level 6, 7 and 8. Hopefully that will help a bit.

I'm not sure why it keeps the balance between the divisions but i'm trying to figure out how to solve it or if that's even possible.

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OK, I have found a couple of errors in the nation cups and none of the non-english teams got a reserve team, that's fixed.

- Fixed matchrules in Welsh Cup

- Fixed matchrules in Scottish Cup

- Fixed matchrules in Northern Ireland Cup

- Added two reserve divisions for all the Championship teams.

- Added wales, scottland and northern ireland as three new regions for the reserve divisions

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Just got to say i started a save with this a wee while ago, and am enjoying it. Started out as Rangers and won champ easy enough, getting 13m for january helped. Will try something more challenging after by trying to get aberdeen into the prem.

Good job fella

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Looks like it does.

I just started as Rangers, and it only shows our European achivements, is there a way to make it show the domestic trophies we have won?

Also i see that all the scottish teams are down as being english, does that mean that the newgens will be english?

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Looks like it does.

I just started as Rangers, and it only shows our European achivements, is there a way to make it show the domestic trophies we have won?

Also i see that all the scottish teams are down as being english, does that mean that the newgens will be english?

well yes i would say so

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Looks like it does.

I just started as Rangers, and it only shows our European achivements, is there a way to make it show the domestic trophies we have won?

Also i see that all the scottish teams are down as being english, does that mean that the newgens will be english?

Newgens are created from stadium city, so with rangers that's Glasgow so newgens will be Scottish

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Newgens are created from stadium city, so with rangers that's Glasgow so newgens will be Scottish

Ah brilliant, cheers mate. Anyone know how to get the game to show the scottish domestic trophies won?

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I've just tried to download and it's saying that the link isn't valid. Any chance you would be able to reupload?

If Hero doesn't show up in the next few days and put in a new link, PM me with your email address and I will send you the file.

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Resurrecting a dead thread here I know. I am still playing FM11 and want to play this database but both links are no longer working. Does the OP still have this, or anyone else, that can put it up for download again?

Thanks in advance.

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